anidb has signatures now! weeeeeee!

Quote of the night

me: he’s going to poison her!
brad: and where would he get poison?
me: rocks!
brad: -long pause- …i don’t even know what to say

irish sent me an irish chant

this is wonderful!

Major CLUG Server Update

I was notified moments ago that the room the server is housed in will be emptied next week. The server will be moved next week requiring an IP change. I will make updates concerning the move as I learn more. As far as I know this WILL require an IP change. Please inform all of your users of this unexpected downtime.

UPDATE 2008-06-16
Currently waiting for Clemson to modify the subdomain of the switch port. Expected IP is 24.59. No estimate on time.
UPDATE 2008-06-17
Server was moved, but we have no static IP or ports. I asked about them and was told i would be notifed. I have not received notification so i sent in my own ticket to ithelp@clemson.edu asking for any updates or information they have heard about it. I’ll post responses here.

UPDATE
A couple of emails and phone calls later it looks like the IP 24.59 is resolving. We also may have more ports exposed now, but i have yet to confirm that. If you know someone using our server, please ask them to update their DNS entry to 24.59 and if you are still experiencing problems please notify me.

forceflow2 just purchased an xbox360

His addiction for rockband was a little high. And Harmonix decided to screw the Wii’s copy of rockband by removing the world tour mode, and character customization. There is no online play, and no download able content. What a bitch move Harmonix.

(13:24:17) Brad: I AM SO SORRY, NINTENDO, FORGIVE ME
(13:24:55) me: didn’t you own a dreamcast?
(13:25:22) Brad: Ok, to be fair, Nintendo understands and forgives owning a dreamcast because of how awesome they were
(13:25:28) me: I see
(13:25:31) Brad: And I bought a freaking Virtual Boy, they owed me
(13:25:35) me: LOL

I can haz a theremin?

So today i learned what a theremin is, and even cats can play it!

My New Ringtone

Just to annoy forceflow2

ruby on rails

I was updating a server today and had to install mongrel for someone. I have to admit it’s much faster than the FCGI extension we were using before.

imdb and perl update

So i’m finally done with exams and now i get to write about this update. I got an email a couple weeks ago from Michele about an update to my imdb perl script. He added an “also known as” functionality to it. Here’s his take on it:

[...]we have the really bad habit to translate movies
and titles. For example, “the godfather”, is translated in “il
padrino”. This is fairly common in Europe.

Here’s a screenshot of the new output,

And a link to the updated perl script. Thanks alot Michele! I’ll post more later if he, or myself, update the script.

Backup Script

Here’s a backup program i wrote for the clemsonlinux server. It uses the dump command to backup a directory in daily and monthly intervals. I’ll modify it more later

script